re: #10 Big Steve

Are we witnessing evolution in the news this week with H1N1? I know that there are arguments as to whether viruses are really alive since they can’t self replicate. However H1N1 is a new virus and didn’t exist until presumably recently. As I understand it influenza mutates when an individual is infected with a non-human influenza which doesn’t affect them but then also catches a human strain and within a single cell the two DNA packages interact creating a new virus.

Yet the Creationism wonks will say they have always believed in micro-evolution, virus mutation and such, but reject macro-evolution, the change of species over time.